Friday, December 11, 2009

Welcome to the SoSG Casino! Grab a drink and come on in! And tonight we have a special event - the SoSG Casino has been chosen as the site of Round 3 of the 1st Annual International Flo vs Deltalina Championships.

The eight contestants are Jason, TD, Keven C, Dusty Baker, Wicks, djansson, rbnlaw, and Scott. And Round 3 is basically a game of blackjack. Only it's "18 Blackjack," not 21. Here's how it works:

Today, in this thread, between 10am and 1pm PT is when the game is played.

All are welcome to comment as they please, but only comments with all of the following characteristics count:

It is made by one of the eight contestants

It is made in this thread between the hours of 10am and 1pm PT (inclusive), and

The first word in the comment is "HIT" (please use all caps).

After 1pm, the last digit of each contestant's such comments are added up, and just like blackjack, the contestants are trying to get as close to 18 as you can without busting.

A last digit of 0 is a 10.

Sometime before 1pm (it may even be before 10am), your dealer (pictured above) will HIT once, so you can see her first card.

There is no double-ing down, insurance, splitting, or anything like that

At 1:01pm, all play is off.

Sometime after 1pm, the dealer will continue to play her hand, HIT-ting or not. When she comments "STAY" (or when she busts) then she is done.

Some players will beat the dealer, some will lose. The object is to get the field of 8 down to 4.

Dealer must hit on 14

If more than 4 lose, then the remaining players that won move on and those that lost play another hand next week to see who among them moves on.

If more than 4 win, then those winning players play another hand next week to see who among them moves on (and the losing players are eliminated).

Tie-ing the dealer counts higher than losing but not as high as winning.

FYI, being a #1 or #2 seed doesn't matter.

Got it? Good, because I'm not sure I do (most of this was devised and written between the time I got to work (9am ET) and now (9:23am), and I gotta run to a meeting. In fact I have back-to-back-to-back meetings almost all day, so I'm leaving you in Deltalina's hands. I'll try to check in when I can. In anycase, wait 'til 10am and HIT away!

RESULTS:

Player

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

Tot

Result

Jason*

1

8

9

18

W

TD

5

6

3

14

L

Keven C*

4

3

2

1

6

16

W

Dusty Baker

8

7

15

T

Wicks*

4

3

2

7

16

W

djansson

3

7

9

Bust

L

rbnlaw*

10

6

16

W

Scott

8

8

L

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Deltalina

1

6

8

15

*moving on to 4th round

Please confirm above scores. If they stand, well, what do you know? It looks like we have our four winners: Jason, Keven C, Wicks, and rbnlaw. But please correct me if wrong. Round 4 on Monday!

TD, it sounds like your browser window is too narrow to fit the entire comment URL in the status bar at the bottom. You can click on the link to open it and check the URL that way. Or buy a bigger screen.

Sorry to interrupt your gambling... but this was interesting. Apparently the Dodgers have enough $$ to send players to a six-day nutrition boot camp, er, vacation in Arizona next week. But not enough to add Hoffman to the 40-man... Weird.

@Rbnlaw @Orel @Eric Karros truth is i've working like crazy! add winter baseball and a lousy social life which means my days are filled. You can ask Mr. LASF, Josh and Dusty that i tweeted a few days ago i was missing the SoSG bar.

The girl on my picture is the daughter of the cousin of my fellow season ticket holder and she rocks! we "like" each other so much, we attracted the attention of the team's photographer. Isn't she cute?

Hey EK, thanks for giving me the chance to stay competitive! Unfortunately I got called away from the computer by some unexpected company. No worries though, I will cheer for my Deltalina-supporting brothers the rest of the way!